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chitoryu12 posted:Many thanks to Polyakov, as I now have all of the novelizations and The Authorized Biography! We're able to do an almost complete set! Awesome. 
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Rockopolis posted:Putin wanting to rename the GU back to the GRU surprises me a little - KGB and the GRU were rivals, weren't they? I'm surprised he doesn't name them the Unintelligence Directorate. Now that he controls them both it's to his benefit to have each of them as grand as possible.
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That’s a direction I wasn’t expecting.
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Runcible Cat posted:And knowing enough about shells to support herself and save money. That's just depressing. This book feels like it's wallowing in the same "your heroes are actually shitbags, let me tell you how awful they are" pit with a lot of other 1970s books and films.
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If the author is still filling out the 1970s bingo card Bond will spend a little while strung out on heroin, amphetamines, or psychedelics.
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Apr 29, 2020 07:02
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This is dire.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:21
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Somebody Awful posted:
They moved to a newer larger building last year and have new exhibits.
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May 7, 2020 00:50
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Well okay. I was halfway expecting that he was going to have M blackmailed for being gay since we haven’t hit that bingo square yet. The Herbert Hoover FBI thing is just inexcusable.
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I'm actually a little surprised whoever controlled the Bond literary rights at the time let it get published as it is, given how it goes out of its way to poo poo on just about all of Fleming's books and the movies too.
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May 12, 2020 01:16
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chitoryu12 posted:And I have turned 28 today! I share a birthday with both Fleming and Blofeld! Happy birthday! 
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May 29, 2020 03:52
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chitoryu12 posted:I can't get over how Woods wants to emulate Fleming's Bond being disgusted with violence and having traumatic reactions to it, but still has Moore's Bond coming in with deadpan quips. It ends up making the character seem to be dissociating to a terrifying degree, constantly on the verge of vomiting or passing out or breaking down sobbing and then immediately suppressing it by making one-liners about the way someone just got dismembered. I personally use a lot of humor to deal with uncomfortable situations so I don’t find this to be terribly jarring but that probably says more about me than Woods.
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Jun 24, 2020 04:11
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chitoryu12 posted:After some thought (and realizing I was very tired when doing the last chapter), I am upgrading to Horny Counter: 25 for the "unsupported breasts" of zero gee. Make it 26, you had two 24s last update.
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Aug 21, 2020 04:02
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chitoryu12 posted:Chapter 16: Can you See Me Mother Earth? Should he be surprised?
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Aug 21, 2020 05:55
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm down. It has to better than the last two. lmao that you're going to poo poo on Skyfall and Spectre while apparently liking Quantum of Solace.
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Sep 3, 2020 23:58
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If that’s what you’re into at the moment look for the granddaddy of them all, The Expert at the Card Table.
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Say what you will about the animals themselves but all the fashion and ceremonial bullshit that is built up around them will always make me laugh.
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RIP Hugo Drax: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/21/entertainment/michael-lonsdale-obituary-trnd/index.html Edit: I’ve also seen the conversation summary device used to show that a viewpoint character’s attention was drifting from the conversation to his own internal thoughts or something happening in his line of sight but that doesn’t appear to be what’s happening here. Midjack fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Apologies for any slowness in posting. An ex-coworker probably gave me COVID because she was a denialist never wearing a mask and constantly partying and I’m basically bedridden with a fever! Be well dude. We’ll be here.
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chitoryu12 posted:Chapter 18: A Watched Plot Tracing phone calls was a MUCH more involved process before electronic switching stations became widespread in the 70s and 80s, and parts of Europe hung onto older telephone infrastructure for a long time.
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Oct 9, 2020 08:06
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Margaret Nolan, who played the gold-painted girl in the Goldfinger credits and Bond’s massage therapist, has died.
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Oct 12, 2020 17:12
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Trin Tragula posted:One of these things is not like the others... It feels like an artifact of its time; the author seem to be trying to rope in the world's nuclear power and it was probably easier to imagine a terrorist attack in East Germany than elsewhere in the USSR. West Germany suffered a lot of terrorist attacks during its existence so why not add it too. Japan or India seem like they would have made more sense than West Germany, though.
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Oct 12, 2020 23:39
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Rainbow Six opened similarly; I wonder if it was deliberate homage by Clancy?
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Blofeld mentioned his predecessor so this is a new leader for the new SPECTRE?
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Oct 21, 2020 16:58
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Presumably Irma Blunt, who escaped after the escapade with the giant genetically modified wombats You are probably correct, there is a distinct lack of pronouns referring to Blofeld.
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Oct 21, 2020 19:55
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Hey 007 please don’t bone your best friend’s daughter.
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Oct 22, 2020 22:07
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Stop creeping on your best friend’s daughter, 007.
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Oct 29, 2020 19:23
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While it wouldn’t be built for 25 years after this book was written, the MGM National Harbor hotel and casino is in the right spot for this.
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Nov 1, 2020 05:59
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Space Wolves, huh?
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Nov 7, 2020 04:10
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quote:Back in the car, she seemed edgy. ‘Where now?’ Bond asked, giving the impression that the show with the hidden entrance was an interesting, but unimportant event.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Ew. 
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I guess the 80s are late enough into the Cold War that if Nazis(?) are killing Communists the response of the US and UK wouldn't be to just sit back and 
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Gats Akimbo posted:Yay for technicalities! Means the US hasn't lost one since then either! 
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Dec 22, 2020 23:03
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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
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Feb 23, 2021 22:24
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I assume this will be Good Bad Brad instead of Bad Bad Brad. This is farcical even by 007 standards.
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Gumby posted:An eye-catching black girl, driving a violet-coloured sports car, managed to come between the leading car and the first van just as the convoy climbed the ramp on to the Flyover; while an equally striking white girl, in a violet dress, driving a black sports car, cut in between the second van and the police car in the rear. I guess the lady in the purple car had a white dress but Gardner forgot to mention it.
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Mar 23, 2021 22:22
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I guess Gardner dropped the Qute character so he could have 007 get schooled by and subsequently bone a different smart girl in every book.
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Mar 31, 2021 18:35
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So I guess Percy will teach 007 how to SEND SPIKE?
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Apr 1, 2021 20:33
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chitoryu12 posted:Oh, we have a completely different context for Bond and video games that will come up with this book... I suspected his making GBS threads on Space Invaders would come back to bite him as soon as the computer angle was revealed.
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Apr 3, 2021 06:08
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Learning Forth, you say?
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chitoryu12 posted:Chapter 9: Inside Endor Ballmer, you say? https://youtu.be/I14b-C67EXY
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